Kašpi!

I think this could be a good start for my new blog cause I’m making something new – a word about skills and knowing how-to. I won’t move the posts from the old blog here, cause I’m willing to write this one mostly in English since I have that lot of friends who don’t understand my original language. So, have fun and feel free to share your opinion.

Speaking about skills, /me believes that everyone can do anything, there’s just need to learn how to. In my opinion, everything what people do and what has some price is just a product of some knowledge. A programmer can create an application, cause he knows some programming languages as well as a painter can paint a beautiful picture, cause he knows techniques of drawing and painting and a composer can get nice sounds together and compose something what people like.

There’s nothing like “art”. I’ve already learned that I can do most of the arts myself. Not saying I can do it anytime, I just have to learn how to. There are arts generally described and well documented, like abilities to do accounting, understanding physics or maths, or programming, people use to call them skills and it is enough to read a book or several books or any else feed of informations such as web, to know how to do these arts. Then there are arts not that well described, like masonry or bakery, you have to get some theory first and then you also have to practice them. I doubt a car mechanic could repair a car without seeing a car in real before, just from seeing a car in books.

The more knowledge and practice you have, the better you can control an art. If somebody wants to be a carpenter, first time he’s glad if he can manage to hammer a nail into wood in two hits. Later he learns how to work with wood, how to make it’s face smooth and stuff. Then he can make a wardrobe. This is still called a skill, but when the carpenter gets enough knowledge about working with wood, he can start making wooden models of places, towns or later even wooden creatures, miniatures of faces so on, cause for him, it is enough to look at what he wants to make – at this point, this art is called already a talent.

Notice that the more knowledge the maker has, the higher price there is – a wooden model of Manhattan would surely cost more than a wooden shelf.

Then there are arts (at the talent level) even less described, like painting or playing a music instrument – you mostly have to find the knowledge on your own. And it is not easy, often you have to practice these arts enough to control them ‘automatically’ if you can even find out, but you still have something what can help you, e. g. songbook. You can’t be a leading virtual gamer without feeling the mouse, keyboard and the game as a part of your body. You can’t paint like Picasso without knowing his painting techniques (and where you can read about them?). And you can’t play Mozart on piano without practicing it enough. You can do all of these things if you’ll focus on them enough.

At last, there are arts without any documentation where it’s all up to you. You can just watch (if there’s actually anything to watch) and find out on your own. An example? Composing music. Do you know to compose music? A how-to which I’m thinking out right now: If I wanted to make music, first I’d have to decide what should the music say to the listener, actually I would have to imagine, what the listener is supposed to see or imagine too.. Would it be some action or a kind of panorama? Like two people in love? (more like panorama) Soundtrack to Jackie Chan’s movie? (action) Soundtrack to Mortal Combat? (action) A trip to a dark forest at midnight? (panorama) A discovering flight through the universe? (panorama) Here I would see what sounds and speed should the music have.. and actually which instruments to use.. Simply, the more is the imagination moving, the faster should the music be. If I was making music for Jackie Chan’s movie, it would be faster four-cycle music mainly with drums. If it was music for two people in love, sitting at a coast under a tree, watching the sea one warm summer day, where nothing moves much, It would be very slow music with e. g. alto and violin. Then I’d have to think out some melody, e. g. for the people in love, it would be slow melody where nothing changes at one moment.. I’d imagine melody as some base set of tones following each in time.. like when you play a melody with an instrument such as violin, where you can’t play two tones at once.. so I’d imagine a melody as a line in a graph with tone at Y axis and time at X axis.. (weird? yeah) how to produce that line? Well again, from the imagination.. for example.. you can look at a tree and take shape of a twig. You can try to “play” that twig and you’ll see how it will fit the imagination you are making the music for, in case you can try something else..

I have never done making a music this way before.. I’d have to do some practice to produce something, but it’s about abilities to think out how to do these arts. And these arts are worth the most, cause not many people can ‘think the knowledge out’. Who can, is often called genius.

So, come on! Want to be an accountant? Want to be a cook? A famous cook who has own TV show? Wanna be a dancer? A pop star? A footballer? You can be anything! Just work for it and think!